The public realm has been historically conceived, constructed, and construed as heteronormative. The architectural and urban typologies of bathrooms, sports fields, and campuses have spatially reinforced strict gender binaries and prohibitions of various sexualities. More recently, the contemporary city has seen a growing discourse on design beyond its heteronormative origins. Queering Public Spaces convenes conversation on the role of design and planning in the curation of public spaces and landscapes that are accessible and welcoming to all, across the dynamic and vast spectrum of...
Join ICA’s Ellen Matilda Poss Director Jill Medvedow in conversation with writer, curator, and podcaster Helen Molesworth on her new book, Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing about Art (Phaidon). Over the past three decades, Molesworth’s singular voice and lively curatorial vision has established her as one of the most dynamic and influential voices in the world of contemporary art. Open Questions, the first ever collection of her writings, presents 24 essays from the past 30 years, gathered from exhibition catalogs and art publications such as ...
A one-on-one conversation between Professor of Architecture Carlos Jiménez NA, principal of Carlos Jiménez Studio, and Patricio Del Real, PhD, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. The evening will feature an overview of Jiménez’s 40-year practice and a focus on his project for Won Buddhism of Houston (2015-2021), which is on view in Sites of Impermanence. Jiménez understands architecture’s value as a life force: generous and sustaining, inspiring and optimistic, ancient and modern, wise and expectant, discreet and...
Isabella S'ewart Gardner Museum: Bertucci Education Studio
Isabella loyalists will have a front row seat to an afternoon with Natalie Dykstra, author of Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner. Nathaniel Silver, Associate Director and Chief Curator at the Gardner, will introduce the author —who will read passages from her book—and facilitate a Q&A and book signing. Copies of her book will be available for purchase at the event, or you can reserve your copy in advance and receive a free Gardner tote bag and book mark!*
Webinars co-organized by the Center of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, and Art, Resources,and Teaching Trust, Bangalore, presenting the pioneering scholarship across variousfields ofknowledge from both the Northern and Southern Deccan regions of India.
Speaker: Rachel Hirsch, PhD candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.